Ferrybank’s Thomas Barr set a brilliant new Irish 400m hurdles record of 48.90 secs at the Record EAP meet in Geneva, Switzerland. Barr won the race ahead of current European champion Rhys Williams of GB and now tops the European rankings. The time beats Barr’s newly minted Irish best of 49.61 sec set two weeks ago.
Also in Geneva, Sarah Lavin of UCD ran 13.23 secs to finish third in the 100m hurdles and make the Euro qualification mark. Also qualifying for Europe was Bandon’s Phil Healy with a personal best 11.53 secs in the 100m heats. Kelly Proper of Ferrybank ran a 23.38 second PB in the 200 and also won the long jump. In the men’s 200m, a time of 21.45 was enough to qualify Sligo’s Zak Irwin for the World Juniors later in the summer. Full Irish result below.
Kelly Proper
AT IRISHTOWN, Fionnuala Britton ran a personal best of 8:50.80 in a mixed 3000m at the IMC/Crusaders meet, knocking over four seconds off her previous best of 8:55.01.
Donore’s John Travers was out on his own in the race, running a time of 8:12.80 to finish almost 12 secodns clear of Gary Murray from St Malachy’s. In the 800m, British Milers Club visitor Joe Maynard came home first in 1:47.75, with David McCarthy of West Waterford second in 1:49.30. British visitors finished first and second in the 1500m, with Dan Studley clocking 3:44.76 for victory ahead of Sean Fletcher Wylie. Annadale’s James O’Hare was third in 3:46.96, with Star of the Sea junior Andrew Coscoran beating John Coghlan of MSB for fourth place. Leevale multi-eventer Sam Healy won the 110m hurdles in 14.41 secs.
MARK ENGLISH of UCD finished 2nd behind Olympic and world champion David Rudisha of Kenya in the 800m at the New York Diamond League meet. Rudisha finished in 1:44.62 with English’s time of 1:45.03 putting him fourth on the current European rankings.
BEN REYNOLDS ran a wind-assisted 13.59 secs for the 11om hurdles in Goteborg Winner in 13.30 secs was Olympic champion Dayron Robles of Cuba. Wind was +2.8.
ROSEANNE GALLIGAN of Newbridge finished third in the 800m with a time of 2:04.05 at the Iberoamericano Huelva meet in Spain on Thursday evening. In the 5000m, DSD’s Maria McCambridge finished 10th in 15:51.55 in the 5000m while Tom Cotter of Dunleer was 14th in the 3000m steeplechase in 8:50.45.
DAVID MCCARTHY finished 4th in the 1500m at last Wednesday’s Nijmegen Global meet in the Netherlands. His time was 3.39.34; Ronald Musagala won in 3:37.7.
Saturday June 14
Geneva International, Stade du Bout du Monde, Switzerland. Full result www.atleticageneve.ch
Women: 100m – Serie 2: 2 Phil Healy 11.53, =5 Niamh Whelan 11.75. Serie 3: Catherine McManus 11.91, 7 Louise Kiernan 12.03. Serie 5: 6 Niamh McNicol 12.35. Final A: 8 Phil Healy 11.56 Final B: 6 Catherine McManus 11.84. Final C: 3 Louise Kiernan 11.80. 200m – Serie 1: 4 Kelly Proper 23.38 (pb). Serie 2: 1 Niamh Whelan 23.78.Serie 3: 4 Louise Kiernan 24.89. Serie 4: 1 Niamh McNicol 24.47. 400m – Serie 3: 3 Sinead Denny 55.22. 100m H – Serie 1 (-2.8): 3 Sarah Lavin 13.37. Final A ( -3.3): 3 Lavin 13.23. 400m H – Serie 1: 5 Jessie Barr 58.72. Serie 3: Nessa Millett dnf. Long jump: 1 Kelly Proper 6.45. 4x100m – Serie 1: 1 Switzerland 44.14, 2 Ireland (Lavin, Whelan, McManus, Healy) 44.45., 3 Wales 44.66.
Men: 100m – Serie 2: 1 Steven Colvert 10.66, 6 David Hynes 10.89. Serie 3: 1 Craig Lynch 10.52.Serie 5: 2 Keith Pike 10.82, 6 Keith Doherty 11.05.Serie 6: 3 Eanna Madden 10.81. Final A: Fabio Ceruttin (Ita) 10.46…6 Craig Lynch 10.64. Final B: 3 Steven Colvert 10.75. Final C: 3 Keith Pike 10.73, 4 Eanna Madden 10.77. 200m – Serie 1: 2 Steven Colvert 20.90, 3 Marcus Lawler 21.05. Serie 2: 8 David Hynes 21.65. Serie 4: 1 Zak Irwin 21.45 400m – Serie 2: Brian Gregan 46.06. Serie 3: 2 Richard Morrissey 46.55.Serie 4: 3 Brian Murphy 47.01. 400m H – Serie 1: 1 Thomas Barr 48.90 (Irish rec) Serie 4: 5 Ben Kiely 52.52. Triple jump: 4 Denis Finnegan 15.13. 4x100m: 1 Ireland (Hynes, Lynch, Pike, Colvert) 39.88 (SB) dnf Ireland U20 (Doherty, Irwin, Elliott, Lawler)
Irish Milers Club /Crusaders GV Ryan T-T, Irishtown (selected; full result www.irishmilersclub.com)
Women – 200m: 1 Clare Brady (Celbridge) 24.99. 800m A: 1 Alexandra Bell (BMC) 2:04.14, 2 Aislinn Crossey (Newry) 2:06.69, 3 Alanna Lally (GCH) 2:08.03, 4 Fiona Kehoe (Kilmore) 2:08.80, 5 Becky Woods (Clonliffe) 2:09.13. 1500m: 1 Amy O’Donoghue (Emerald) 4:24.33, 2 Eleanor Alexander (Clonliffe) 4:27.67. 3000m: Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole) 8:50.80, 2 Ann Marie McGlynn (Lifford) 9:19.88, 3 Sarah Mulligan (DSD) 9″21.01.
Men – 100m A: 1 Mark Kavanagh (DSD) 11.17. 200m A: Sean O’Driscoll (St Abban’s) 22.71. 800m A: 1 Joe Maynard (BMC) 1:47.75, 2 David McCarthy (W Waterford) 1:49.30, 3 Eoin Everard (KCH) 1:49.32, 4 Karl Griffin ( UCD) 1:49.52. 1500m A: 1 Dan Studley (BMC) 3:44.76, 2 Sean Fletcher Wylie (BMC) 3:45.16, 3 James O’Hare (Annadale) 3:46.95, 5 Andrew Coscoran (Star of the Sea, Jun) 3:47.42, 6 John Coghlan (MSB) 3:47.63, 7 Conor Dooney (Raheny Shamrock) 3:49.69. 3000m: 1 John Travers (Donore) 8:12.80, 2 Gary Murray (St Malachy’s) 8:24.61, 3 Jayme Rossiter (Clonliffe) 8:26.76, 4 Ray Hynes (Donore) 8:27.23. 110m H: Sam Healy (Leevale) 14.41, 2 Mathew Behan (Crusaders) 14.47.
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